Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-12
LETTERS FHPM THE CAPITOL.
ST.. PuL. M1yStfa,,h a,1ss,

ST. P1UL, MINI, March 8, 1887.
The agony Is over so farsas the passage Of
bills IS concerned. Under the constitution
no bills could be passed after midnight to-
night but asnsual the Legislature strained
the constitution trihe aud the Senate re-
manned in session until after one and the
House until nearly three O'Clock in the
had every thing cleared up. The House had
resolved to abandon attempting to pass any
more House bills after IL O'Clock but it was
nearly midnight when they actually stopped
the passage Of House bills and began the
work of passing Senate bills. The
continued on their own bills longer but as
they must all go to the Senate after passing
the House and the Senate was not in the
temper to sit through the night to make up
for the dllatoriness of the lower branch,
there was no use OF giving that body any
pass bills that had gone through the Senate
after the Senate had ad journed consequently
that was the order Of exercises. The exact
number Of bills lost this evening can not be
given at this writing but it is between three
and four hundred Among the bills lost dur
ing the day in the Senate was the graded
high license bill offered by Senator Scheffer
and the bill amending the charter OF st. Paul
forbidding the issuing oflicenses under the
new city license ordinance, offered by Sen
ator Daniels. The resolutions which passed
the House aexpunging, the impeachment
also failed in the Senate The judiciary
committee amended them in such way as
to make them worthless and the friends of
Mr. Cox voted them down. It looked at
one time as though the tax bills were going
ito be lost making serious trouble if not the
necessity of call of an extra session but by
a little Iudicious management, they were
punched together and worked through so
that al! absolute necessary legislation was
secured and there is no public demand for
na sssfa good many private
specific woodchucks but the individuals
will be obliged to ssgrin and bear it'' until
next time. Late this evening the bill
transferring the Minneapolis 4 ST. Cloud
land grant to the Duluth, st. Cloud &
there was the usual constitutions argument
that the Legislature were making a new
grant by such action. Itpassed the Senate
some days ago and had seventy votes in
the House tonight. The House spent the
entire emit day in the passage Of bills, the roll
portion Of the tine iDs There ere s Was a
bill which provoked debate OCCASION
ally, such as this land grant bill
just mentioned but for the most part it was
the monotonous reading of bills and calling
the roll that occupied the time There was
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owing to the scramble of members and
lobbyists to save bills when it was inevita-
BILE that so many must fail for lack of time.
Numerous efforts were made during the
day to bring bills up out of their order but
the moment such an attempt was made the
cry y object came up from all quarters
and the House refused to suspend the rules
Everyone had some wood-chuck some
where and consequently scarcely any one
was willing to open the doors fora change
of program lest his woodchuck should
perish and some other one be secured ow-
ing to change Of order business.